Life in general, fiber arts in particular, near Twisp in the beautiful Methow Valley

Beautiful Snow

We had the predicted big snowfall a couple of days ago. We had at least a foot of new snow here at the house, and it was snowing hard when we got up Wednesday morning. It is almost up to the bottom of the Loki sculpture:

and here’s the buildup on the carport roof and in the driveway:

Rick needed to get out so he could go finish installing some cabinets, which fortunately he had transported to the client’s home the day before (because she is up on a ridge and he needed the truck and utility trailer to get them up there). We weren’t sure when our friend Chuck the snowplow guy was going to show up, so Rick went to work with the snowblower.

Of course, that brought Chuck along – he had been up since 4 am plowing people out!

We got a fair amount again on Wednesday night, enough that we had to ask Chuck to come again yesterday. I have been organizing a progressive dinner for our community association for this Saturday, and we will have 26 people here for the salads and main course that evening, so we are trying to keep enough space cleared for people to park!

This morning we went out for a nice long ski, about 2 hours. The trails are in great shape. We did a couple of loops on the other side of the Twin Lakes road, one of which had great views up the valley, and wouldn’t you know it – I forgot to bring the camera. Sorry!

My sister asked about the cats, and I realized I haven’t given a Pushkin update for while. We got him past the urinary tract infection last fall, but he is getting pretty elderly and we have to give him daily subcutaneous fluids now to keep him hydrated (progressive kidney failure, we have been through this before with previous cats…) But he is still with us and he and Teasel spend most of the day curled up together. She adores him.

I have been doing a lot of weaving, and plying up my grey Corriedale handspun singles into the final yarn, and working out a true spiral top hat using short rows, to teach as a class, but no pictures yet – I will post when I have some finished items!

Well, he’s always been a pretty tractable cat. But we do it together, I hold him in my lap facing away from me and administer the sub-q needle, Rick sits in front of him and then we both pet him and make soothing noises. Once in a while if one of us is gone, we have to do it by ourselves, and that is a little harder if he tries to sneak away.